UK Museums = LOVE baby

If there's one thing I've learned (ha) it's that smart chicks/guys dig museums.  And you want a smart guy/chick don'tcha?   

20% of respondents in a British survey conducted for MGM 2006 said that they'd fallen in the big L.O.V.E. while in a museum or gallery.  They voted the Victoria and Albert Museum in London Britain's most romantic, followed closely by:
2) Manchester Art Gallery
3) Tate St Ives
4) National Portrait Gallery
5) Tower of London

65% said they would take a date to a museum or gallery, and 10% said they had flirted with someone - or as the Brits say "chatted up someone."

Oh, and 7% said they had actually knocked something over.  In a museum.  Possibly this museum:

 

Not the best photo of the White Tower, but it's one I took.  Royal and I have only had one day in London thus far, so the Tower was the only museum we hit (my choice!)!  It was awesome, and I definitely fell more in love with him after seeing the place where so many historical figures lost their heads.  Heh. 

For those that have never been, The Tower raises and keeps ravens.  Very cool, and somewhat creepy.  I feel like they've been around since the 15th century.  And now they're looking at me.

Gotta tell ya, it's not always a good idea to take Royal Marine Commandos within hearing distance of these poor guards.  They're Army, apparently.  Pongos.  This guard, bless his punkin' heart, had to bare almost five minutes of the two RMs I was with going after everything from his shoes not being polished enough to his stance not being executed properly.  He was moving too much, his pants had a wrinkle, etc.  With me in the middle saying what a great job he was doing, and y'all please shut up!

The two Marines' favorite room.  Enough shown, I think. 

Kinda got off track from the love thing.  Point being, museums are fantastic and now... formally recognized in one study as romantic! 

Comments

[bootneck in the making]

slightly away from the romanticness of museums....
you mean to say they only spent 5 minutes baiting the pongo? poor drills!

[Kath]

Haha, well maybe 5-8. But to be honest and fair, they had spent about 15 messing them about at Buckingham ~ which I even have evidence of :o) And just so everyone knows, my guys were very polite in taking the mick. Just a military thing...

We had visited Buckingham first, so by the time they started in on the Tower guy, I just felt so bad for all of them!

[Patriot Xeno]

"If there's one thing I've learned (ha) it's that smart chicks/guys dig museums. And you want a smart guy/chick don'tcha? "

I take issue with that. I've found it depends more on how smart a person thinks they are and wants others to think they are as opposed to how smart they actually are. Lot of snooty people raving about museums.

Only museum I'd make a special trip to see again would be the Navy Seal museum in Florida.

[Kath]

Xeno, there are always fakers. All the genuinely smart people I know, including myself, love museums. I would never presume that someone was smart just because they were there or wanted to go, but it would peak my interest!

Just have to sort them out when you get there ~ haha. The Navy Seal Museum would be super cool, I've never been.

[Growing Up]

Hubby and I enjoyed our day in London, we love looking round museums and art gallerys it can be quite romantic.

[Patriot Xeno]

"All the genuinely smart people I know, including myself, love museums."

False. You know me.

[Kath]

GU: I'm glad to hear it! I feel the same way, I love sharing things with my other half. Finding out how he feels and what he loves. Museums are perfect for that.

Xen: I know you, eh. I'm gonna take that as a compliment. So you're saying you don't love museums? Wouldn't take a girl to one? What about liking museums? I must know!

[myak]

fabolus really nice! :-)

[Kath]

Thanks myak! Welcome and hope you visit again!